Bullshit, if you cared about auto crossing you wouldn't have put that turbo kit on your car. Look at civicsiracer on the board, he has boltons and he's beating the pants off ferraris at the solo events. A turbocharged honda would be running the same category as turbocharged vettes and shit like that, you wouldn't stand half a chance.

Besides, what suspension setup do you have maybe some ground control coilovers and tokico blues?

 

That's what all the slow people say. :chuckles:

 

partly true....it's more like drag racing is for people who don't have the time and money to spend maintaining their cars for auto-x's and road racing.

 

We should settle this, somebody should install a super-charger.

And then make a thread about it.

And in this magical fairy-tale thread we can congratulate him. any maybe ask him how he likes driving around on it, or what kind of fuel managment he's doing.

Everybody else, politely explain that no-one likes the tuna-fish here, and beat each other quiet.

-PHiZ

 

lmao

 

question.....i was just flipping through the pages of the new turbo mag and they have the average power output at around 170 whp and 140 tq. for your turbo application. where did you score the extra 30 lb. ft. of torque. i'm not some gullible person that belies all that he reads. but many of there dyno #'s for their turbo kits have been close to that of real world dyno #'s.

 

turn up the boost, something must happen.

 

Maintaining your car for autocross = free :exnbp: Many of the most competitive autocross cars are bone stock. The only expensive thing you need are good tires. Now competitive road racing.... thats a totally different story.

I would venture to say, that if you own a civic, autocross is for people who dont have the money to build/maintain a good drag car :exnbp:

 

I think what our salesman friend enginjim has been trying to suggest is that the edelbrock t28 is maybe a little more reliable than a higher output bb t3/to4e. Edelbrock is "bolt - on," a.k.a for amateurs who don't want to buy new head gaskets. But it's true though, The Vishnu Evo (vishnu is using the ihi bb turbo) beat the Carrera C4s, the M3, and the S4. And this is also a perfect example of why torque numbers don't matter in drag racing when you have to consider weight. The Vishnu evo puts out 273 lb/ft of torque and beat out the S4 (410 lb/ft) in the quarter mile. Torque is important but lets not turn it into something it isn't.

 

Ball bearing turbos are definitely not out of date and its a good thing cause they aint got as much friction. But I really can't knock the t28 too much. Alright its small but the Garrett bb t28 spools up pretty quick, but yea, the output may not be as high. Hey, I mean c'mon, there are positives and negatives to everything. Oh yea and autocross and drag are for 2 different types of drivers so even trying to compare them is retarded.